Thread: Four years ago today, the UNC academic-fraud scandal came to an end with the NCAA declining to punish UNC for years of classes that never met. What happened on October 13, 2017 seemed important then, but it looks even more significant now. Here's why. The UNC scandal, as I write in my new book Discredited, is a story of the NCAA's amateur myth in three acts — how UNC signed onto it, how it fell apart, and how UNC again committed to it. (Pssst buy the book: press.umich.edu/10171336/discr…)

Get ready for a slew of new college vaccine mandates

https://twitter.com/MelMcIntire/status/1429800780220051464

University of Minnesota: valleynewslive.com/2021/08/23/uni…

In all the coverage of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tenure denial today, there was one name I kept expecting to see but didn’t: Sonja Haynes Stone. (thread)

https://twitter.com/arthomason/status/1394997837545476097

Stone, a popular Black female professor at UNC, was denied tenure in 1979 despite a sterling reputation. The decision was reversed after protests: exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/…

I consider myself an expert in UNC controversies. I’m almost done with a book about the academic fraud scandal. Silent Sam, the physics prof who got used as a drug mule. You name a UNC scandal, I know it. This failed reopening absolutely takes the cake. On optics. On real world consequences. On sheer head-shaking dumbfoundedness.

This, from @tressiemcphd, is like a decoder ring for understanding the fall optimism at state schools, and maybe even more broadly. Accept it and all the confusing rhetoric suddenly makes sense. (thread)

https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/1280673402286718982

In a vacuum, the plans are kind of baffling. Bring back thousands of students and play football, when both of those things are especially dangerous? Why default to a version of business as usual when business as usual will kill people?

USC, June 2: “While we still have many details to work out, we are planning for an in-person fall semester.”

July 1: “...we are now recommending all undergraduates take their courses online, and reconsider living on or close to campus this semester.” view.comms.usc.edu/?qs=2034bbad78… Pomona, May 7: "…our hope and our expectation for fall is to be able to resume in-person classes and restore the on-campus residential community…"

July 8: "In this unfolding emergency, we will not be able to bring students back to campus in the fall." pomona.edu/coronavirus/up…

Uh wow. Purdue is fundraising off of returning students to classes. Give $135 and that’s one plexiglass shield! crowdfunding.purdue.edu/s/1461/bp17/in… Here’s a video of Mitch Daniels making the pitch:

Here's a thread of all the statements I've seen from colleges about what they're planning for the pandemic'd fall semester 👇🏻 University of South Carolina's president said they would announce a decision about fall plans around May 15, no later than June 15: 247sports.com/Article/sec-un…